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Cross-Cultural Business Etiquette - Communication Skills Training From MindTools.com. Learning the Ins and Outs of Global Business Success – in an international environment. © iStockphoto.

Cross-Cultural Business Etiquette - Communication Skills Training From MindTools.com

Avoiding Cross-Cultural Faux Pas: Food - Team Management Training From MindTools.com. Making the Best Impression Should you take the first slice?

Avoiding Cross-Cultural Faux Pas: Food - Team Management Training From MindTools.com

© iStockphoto/bocaminus Jack's boss has asked him to visit the organization's new office in China. He's excited about the opportunity, and is looking forward to getting to know his Chinese co-workers. QBE. Tips on how to write a letter of complaint. Language learning can increase brain size! Researchers compared MRI scans of students’ brains before and after three months of intensive language study at a Swedish Military Interpreter Academy.

Language learning can increase brain size!

Results showed that the hippocampus, involved in learning new information and in spatial navigation, as well as three areas in the cerebral cortex related to language and learning, grew in size.

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Writing teaching resources. 10 tips for coping with international business travel. Traveling to other countries on business can get a little tricky. Here's some hard-won advice from one globetrotting IT pro. I have always had a passion for travel and I have been fortunate to be able to see a good bit of the world. Between business travel and personal travel, I have visited more than 60 countries.

Business-English: Deutsche sprechen schlecht Englisch. Quiz: Meistern Sie eine Geschäftsreise ins Ausland? Immigration and language: Stolz, Amerikaner zu sein. English Language & Usage Stack Exchange. What is EBITDA? - hofmannalbrecht - Gmail. Science & Environment - A better way to learn Chinese? There’s been a rising dissatisfaction with current language teaching methods in China, but scientists think they may have an answer.

Science & Environment - A better way to learn Chinese?

There’s no way round it: learning Chinese is tough. As far as reading goes, what most dismays native speakers of alphabetic languages is that Chinese characters offer so few clues. With virtually no Spanish, I can figure out in the right context that baño means bath, but that word in Chinese (洗澡) seems to offer no clues about pronunciation, let alone meaning. Duden-Newsletter: der neue Duden ist da! - hofmannalbrecht - Gmail. What is affirmative action. What is collateral.

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What is Debt. KS3 Bitesize - English. What is amortization? - hofmannalbrecht - Gmail. Useful Communication Tools to Foster Common Understanding. As a manager of a business, your employees will not be same page as you 100% of the time.

Useful Communication Tools to Foster Common Understanding

No matter how hard you try to build a cohesive workforce in meetings, there will always be miscommunication. We are repeatedly told that the key to successful management is fluid and frequent communication. Ways to research a company before an interview. May 15, 2013, 4:17 AM PDT.

Ways to research a company before an interview

What Our Words Tell Us. About two years ago, the folks at Google released a database of 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008.

What Our Words Tell Us

You can type a search word into the database and find out how frequently different words were used at different epochs. The database doesn’t tell you how the words were used; it just tells you how frequently they were used. Still, results can reveal interesting cultural shifts. Before You Buy That T-Shirt. Beawiharta/Reuters Workers making clothes at a factory in Jakarta, Indonesia. Is the traditional resume about to be outdated? Dying for the shirt on your back. The deaths of more than 600 garment workers in Bangladesh's Rana Plaza factory collapse April 24 is a tragedy that highlights widespread problems in the global apparel industry.

Dying for the shirt on your back

Englischsprachige Geschäftskorrespondenz ist einfacher als Sie denken. How to Climb Into a Truck Cab. Grammar rules everyone should follow. The Idler Academy's inaugural Bad Grammar award was bestowed last week on 100 academics who wrote an open letter to Michael Gove in March criticising the education secretary's revised national curriculum.

Grammar rules everyone should follow

The letter reads at times as if it was written by committee, but does it really display "the worst use of English over the last 12 months by people who should know better"? Hardly. Home. Online educational program. 2013 Teachers Back to School Survival Guide. The Average Income of a Pastor of a Mega Church. In a report by the Leadership Network in 2010, the average salaries of pastors at 253 mega churches in 38 states and four Canadian provinces were reported.

The Average Income of a Pastor of a Mega Church

A lead pastor in a mega church can earn an average salary of $147,000 according to an article on the report by the website Christian Post. “Yours faithfully” or “Yours sincerely”? Business Advantage activities – Intermediate. Inspiring Women. Kim Winser: 'I was rejected from the M&S board for being female' 27 November 2013 The ex-chief executive of both Pringle and Aquascutum talked about her rise to the top at MT's Inspiring Women's Conference. 20 QUESTIONS: Divinia Knowles, Mind Candy 13 November 2013 Divinia Knowles, COO and CFO of online games firm Mind Candy, gives her take on Amazon, antiques and enterprise education. 20 QUESTIONS: Kim Winser, Winser London 12 November 2013. Advantages and Disadvantages of Protectionism. Strengths of Protectionism - One strengh of protectionism is that it keeps the domestic economy flowing. Since there is a decrease in imports, domestic firms have less competion, and so are able to continue. - The domestic economy also strengthens, because the unimployment rate will be minimal.

This is because the domestic firms are able to produce and sell more goods with a lot less difficulty, giving firms less incentive to decrease its cost by decreasing its work force. The people with jobs will keep consuming, allowing a flow of the economy. Ten Key Ideas, Opening the Door to the Economic Way of Thinking, by Russell Roberts. Free Trade. For more than two centuries economists have steadfastly promoted free trade among nations as the best trade policy. Online Test. Principles of Plain English. By Mark Nichol. Writing. James Abela ELT. The eltpics ideas site for teachers. BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos.

Word Clouds for Kids! ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids. The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Apple, The New York Times, USA Today, Parents Magazine and Scholastic, to name just a few, have featured ABCya’s popular educational games. ABCya’s award-winning Preschool computer games and apps are conceived and realized under the direction of a certified technology education teacher, and have been trusted by parents and teachers for ten years.

Our educational games are easy to use and classroom friendly, with a focus on the alphabet, numbers, shapes, storybooks, art, music, holidays and much more! Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds. WordItOut - Generate word clouds (and make custom gifts) Create a PicLit. The eltpics ideas site for teachers.

Eltpics' Photostream. ProjectBritain.com - A resource of British Life and Culture in the UK by Woodlands Junior. Eurocatering Language Training. Active Learning. Objectives Students will learn to use Pages for publishing a magazine. Sprachschuleulm.de. Your question of the week from Vocabulary.com - hofmannalbrecht - Gmail. Apprendre l’anglais. learn english for beginners A1 A2 B1. A day in my life. Video lessons - Most Popular. BBC - Homepage. Global Text Project. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds. WordItOut - Generate word clouds (and make custom gifts) TagCrowd: make your own tag cloud from any text.

14 Infographics to Help Organize Your Kitchen. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. NTDOEScratch. What do students learn as they create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art with Scratch? For one thing, they learn mathematical and computational ideas that are built into the Scratch experience. Learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community. Gardner Writes. Learn about Types of Writing. Corwin: More Than 100 Brain-Friendly Tools and Strategies for Literacy Instruction: Kathy Perez: 9781412926935.